Garment supporter



March 27, 1928. 1,664,345

P. D. BELDEN GARMENT SUPPORTER Filed June 16. 1926 Patented Mar. 27, 1 928.

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Application and June s, 1926. Serial No. 116,402.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in garment supporters and more particularly to a shoulder strap of or namental and attractive appearance adapted I to'be detachably connected to the garments 16 thereof, said hooks being engageable with the garment in any desired manner, but preferably by engaging the hooks with rings or the like secured to the garment.

Another object resides in the provision of yieldable portions or connections adapted to take up the weight of the garments and to provide breaking of the straps or discomfiture to the wearer.

With the above and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, my invention consists in the novel details of construction and arrangement of parts, described in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and while I have illustrated and describedthe preferred embodiments of the invention, as they now appear to me, it will be understood that such changes may be made as will fall within the scope of the appended claim.

In the drawings: v Fig. 1 is a perspective showing the supporter in position for use.

Fig. 2 isa side elevation with parts broken away. n

Fig. 3 is a fragmental detail showing a longitudinal section through a portion of the yieldable connection with parts shown in elevation; and

Fig. 4 is an elevation, parts broken away, showing a slightly different form of invention.

' In the drawings 1 indicates the garment to be supported and having the rings or eyelets 2 secured, preferably on the inner surface, adjacent the upper edge, at both the front and back of the garment.

My improved form of garment supporter includes the non-resilient shoulder strap '3 adapted to extend over the shoulders of the wearer as more particularly.illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings. In the improvements shown the strap is in theform of an ornamental chain and at each end has secured thereto a rod 4, the end link of the chain engaging in an eye 5 formed on the end of the rod. The rod 4: passes through an opening 6 in the closed end of a cylinder '7, the opposite end of the rod being formed with a head 8 forming an abutment for a coiled spring 9 which surrounds the rod between the head 8 and the closed end of the cylinder. The head 8 is of a diameter as to provide a slidable fit with the interior of the cylinder. A ring 10 is pivotally connected adjacent the open end of the cylinder, for swinging movement, and carried by this ring 10 is a snap hook 11 for engagement with the rings or eyelets 2 connected to the garment.

In supporting a garment it will be understood thattwo of the supporters are used and positioned as shown more'particularly in Fig. 1 of the drawings. One hook 11 on each chain will engage a ring or eye 2 at the front of the garment and the hook on the opposite end of the chain or strap will engage the ring or eye at the back of the garment.

The yieldable connection between the end of the chain or strap and the hook will take up the weight of the garments and prevent the chains or straps from cutting into the flesh of the wearer to cause discomfiture. Atthe same time this yiel'dable connection will prevent the chains or straps from being broken by the weight of the garment.

While I have illustrated the supporter in use with only one garment I wish it under- I stood that the same supporters may be used for supporting a plurality of garments. This can be accomplished by attaching the :rings or eyelets 2 to the desired positions upon the garments to be supported so that the hooks 11 may be engaged with one or more series of pairs of the rings or eyelets.

In Fig. 4 I have illustrated a slightly different design or form of the shoulder strap 3 made up of a plurality of rows of parallel chains and a pair of yieldable connections at each end of the strap, the cylinders 7 of the yieldable connections being connected to the ends of the outer rows of chains and supporting or having connected thereto the snap hooks 11. In this form of the invention as disclosed in Fig. 4. the ornaments or cross plates 12 are shown to add to the appearance of the device.

The ornamental strap or supporter shown and described will be of particular usefulness for wear with ladies evening clothes and while serving the purpose of supporting the desired garments will have the added purpose and feature of ornamentation. The straps are necessarily somewhat small or fine and the yieldable connection between the straps and hooks prevents, as has been previously stated, discomfiture to the wearer for if such yieldable connections were not employed the weight of the garments would have a tendency to cause the straps or chains to cutinto the flesh of the wearer.

Having fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: r

A garment supporter of the character de% scribed including a shoulder strap formed of an inextensible chain, garment attaching means, and elastic connections between the garment attaching means and the chain.

In testimony whereof I hereunto a'lfix my 25 signature.

PAULINE DUNSTAN E DEN, 

